NEW-DIALECT FORMATION: THE INEVITABILITY OF COLONIAL ENGLISHES.
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS
Published: 2004
Place of publication: EDINBURGH
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 180
Description: "This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English."--Jacket.